Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. INTRODUCTION
5. Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe 1
6. PART I: German Eugenic Paradigms
7. Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategies for Southeastern Europe 25
8. PART II: Hygiene and Health Politics
9. Orientalizing Disease. Austro-Hungarian Policies of ‘Race,’ Gender and Hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874–1914 55
10. Typhus, Turks, and Roma: Hygiene and Ethnic Difference in Bulgaria, 1912–1944 87
11. Health Policy and Private Care: Malaria Sanitization in Early Twentieth Century Greece 127
12. Combating Infant Mortality in Bulgaria: Welfare Activities, National Propaganda, and the Establishment of Pediatrics, 1900–1940 143
13. Politics, Modernization and Public Health in Greece: The Case of Occupational Health, 1900–1940 165
14. “Like Yeast in Fermentation”: Public Health in Interwar Yugoslavia 193
15. PART III Eugenics and Reproduction
16. Marital Health and Eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878–1940 233
17. Eugenic Birth Control and Prenuptial Health Certification in Interwar Greece 271
18. Eugenics and Puericulture: Medical Attempts to Improve the Biological Capital in Interwar Greece 299
19. Controlling the National Body: Ideas of Racial Purification in Romania, 1918–1944 325
20. The Eugenic Fortress: Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania 351
21. Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia 385
22. PART IV: New Research Agendas
23. Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Health, Hygiene and Eugenics 427
24. Contributors 447
25. Index 451